Charles Polchow served as the first president of Chicago Ridge when it organized as a village in 1914. He emigrated to the United States from Germany in 1897. Charles and his wife the former Luzina Zippel, arrived March 10, 1897 to Chicago Ridge,...

Front page articles from the April 2, 1964 Chicago Ridge Citizen Newspaper. Article and photograph of Chicago Ridge Book Day and the newly formed library commission. Article about Civil Defense Education Classes held at Henry Ford II School, 108th...

An April 10, 1964 newspaper article by the Chicago Ridge Citizen describes a decision between the Chicago Ridge village board and the Chicago Ridge park district to purchase nearly four acres of land at 107th Street and Menard Avenue.

Collected for Naperville's Sesquicentennial are 150 farm family histories and 70 photographs of farms dating from the early 1800s. These hearty men and women worked tirelessly to bring Naperville from a prairie wilderness to a thriving city.